Attachment for automatic telephone dials



ATTACHMENT FOR AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE DIALS Original FiledNbv. 20; 1929 d/mrhs E'yeas/r INVENTOR Patented Feb. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES CHARLES n. FIVEASH, or ron'rminn', OREGON ATTACHMENT roe AUTOMA'I'iC TELEPHONE putts Application filed November 20, 1929, Serial No. 4 (l 8,570 Renewed August 8, 1932.

My device is intended for being placed over the dial of an automatic telephone. The attachment is adapted for being detachably mounted upon the dial.

5. The primary object of the attachment is to provide means for indicating in color the number of the telephone desired to be made prominent and other indicia brought before the user of the telephone and in this manner 10. facilitate the dialing of the number indicated and to display whatever indicia are desired to be displayed.

The invention in its preferred embodiment consists of a body element having openings disposed therethrough that are in registerable alignment with the openings disposed within a standard automatic telephone dial. Simple means are provided for attaching the body element to the dial of the automatic telephone.

The invention consists of a one-piece body element having its peripheral edge adapted for engagement with the peripheral edge of the automatic telephone dial and having a raised surface upon which delineated subjects may be printed, embossed, or otherwise.

placed thereupon. The rim is adapted for being sprung sufiiciently to permit its engage ment with the rim of the automatic telephone dial.

A further object of my invention consists in providing a simple attachment for an au tomatic telephone dial that may be made to carry advertising matter, or other instructional data relating to the telephone.

A still further object of my invention consists in providing an attachment that may be detachably attached about the rim of the telephone dial and that may be utilized for prac- 40 tical, instructional, or educational purposes.

With these and incidental objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts, the essential elements of which are set forth in the appended claims, and a preferred formof embodiment of which is hereinafter shown with referenceto the drawing which accompanies and forms a part of this specification. V

In the drawing: Fig. 1 is a side elevation of an automatic telephone illustrating one of my new and improved attachments in place upon the dial of the telephone. j

, :Fig. 2 is a top,-plan View of the dial illustrating one of my new and improved devices in place thereupon. v

Fig. 3 is a cross section View taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2 looking in the direction indicated. V I 7 Fig. 4 is an inverted, plan view of the body element.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views. 7

l is the dial of an automatic telephone 2.

The stop? is disposed upon the body of'the standard-telephone unit 4. 'My newand improved attachment consists of a one piece body element 5. A raised section 6 is provided centrally within the body element. A plurality. of spaced holes 7 are provided within the body element which aremade for being placed in registerable alignment with the openings disposed within the dial of the automatic. telephone. curled inwardly is disposed about the outer periphery of the body element and is adapted for being sprung over the rim of the dial 1 as illustratedat 9 in Fig; 3. The curl shouldbe suflicient only to maintain the attaohment upon the dial when forcedthereupon; Delineations 10 are placed centrally of the raised portion 6 for instructionaland advertising purposes. Further delineations may be placed between the openings 7. and the stop 3 as illustrated at 12.

Assuming that the telephone number of theqadvertiser delineated upon the raised central portionof the attachment isATQtlO, in order. ,to facilitate the dialing; of the ad An outer rim 8 thatis vertisers number ATQellO, the letter A would preferably be printed in one of the primary colors as red and the surface of the body of my attachment adjacent the letter A would preferably be red. The letter T may be printed in another of the primary colors, as blue, and the body of the device adjacent the letter T would preferably be printed in blue. The numeral 2, being in the same space, or opening, as the letter A, would be represented in the same color as the letter A, namely red. The numeralet would be printed in another of the primary colors, as green and the body of the device adjacent the opening carrying number 4: would be printed in green. The numeral 1 would-be printed in a color that would be delineated upon the body of the device adjacent the opening 1 and the numeral 0 would be printed in a designated color and the body of the device adjacent the opening through which the numeral 0 appears would be printed in the same color.

This arrangement greatly facilitates the dialing of the advertisersnumber and at the same time affords noveltyto the construction itself. I

'VVhile the form of mechanism herein shown and described is admirably adapted to fulfill the objects primarily stated, it is to be understood that it is not intended to confine the inventiontothe one form of embodiment herein shown and described, as it is susceptible of embodiment in various forms, all coming within the scope of the claims which follow. Y 7

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the class described, the combination with the dial of anautomatic telephone, of a body element detachably attachable to the dial of the telephone, said body element comprising a peripheral rim provided with finger holes and a raised section disposed centrally of the-rim and having the designation of a predetermined station number marked thereon, each character of said designation having a color to distinguish it from unlike characters, and said rim having areas around the finger holes which are normally positioned over the respective characters on the dial, said areas having the same colors as the corresponding characters in said designation.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with the dial of an automatic telephone, of a body element, said body element comprising a peripheral rim provided with finger holes and a-raised section disposed centrally of the rim and having designation of a predetermined station number marked thereon, each character of said designation having a distinguishing color and said rim having areas around the finger holes which have the same colors as the corresponding characters in said designation.

marked thereon, the characters in said designatlon belng marked to distlnguish them from unlike characters and the areas around the finger holes being correspondingly marked. .i

CHARLES D. FIVEASH. 

